5 Things You Need To Know About Getting Pregnant

Getting pregnant should be a natural thing if you have regular intercourse with your partner. But there are a number of reasons many struggle getting pregnant. There are a number of things you need to know to be able to give birth to your first child. Knowing these things can be helpful when you are not interested in getting pregnant as well. Following are some important things you should know:

1. The Best Time

If you are struggling to get pregnant, you need to know when the best time to get pregnant is. Having sex within a day or two of ovulation is recommended by doctors. That is normally week weeks after the first day of your last period when your cycle is around 28/ days. An egg lives for up to 24 hours after being released and it must be fertilized by man sperm within that time period. Then, the sperm can lips up to 7 days inside a woman. If you consult your family planner doctor regularly about your getting pregnant, you should know exactly when ovulation will happen. If you want to avoid getting pregnant, make sure you don’t have sex without a condom around ovulation.

2. Frequency of Sex

If you plan on getting pregnant soon, try having sex every couple of days for about a month to have the best chance of getting pregnant. It’s not that you need to have sex only around the time of ovulation to get pregnant.

3. Boy Or Girl

You should know that both man’s sperm and the woman’s egg play important parts in determining it. Every normal human cell contains 23 pairs of Chromosomes. When a man sperm fertilizes an egg, the 23 chromosomes from the man join with the 23 from the woman to make it 46 which is 23 pairs. Many don’t know that the chromosome from the woman’s egg known as X chromosome is always the same. But the chromosome of a man can be both X and Y chromosome. If the combination is XX, the child will be a girl. If it’s XY, it will be a boy.

4. Using The Condoms

If you are trying not to get pregnant and you have regular sex, using condoms is the most common these days. But you can still get pregnant because condoms work only 97% of the time. You need to know the common condom mistakes and when condoms expire.

5. Unexpected Pregnancy

Many get pregnant from precum when they use withdrawal method instead of using a condom or contraceptive pills. If you want to avoid such unexpected pregnancy, make sure you know how to avoid getting pregnant from precum.

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